I have an HP Pavilion laptop running Vista Home Premium with IPv6 configured
and have no problem getting a hold of the sites you mention. I do notice
that my IPv4 connection lists INTERNET and IPv6 lists LIMITED for the
connection type which leads me to believe that IPv6 isn't being used over
the internet and maybe that's why I'm not having problems but everything is
configured to enable it.
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Mark R. Cusumano
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"Bennett Haselton" <bennett@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> After getting a new PC with Vista Home Premium on it, I discovered
> that I could access most Web sites but some hostnames wouldn't
> resolve, like www.pagliacci.com and www.facebook.com. I recalled once
> running into a problem on Linux with www.facebook.com and a friend who
> explained to me that it had something to do with www.facebook.com
> having a broken IPv6 record, so I went into Control Panel->Network and
> Sharing Center->Manage network connections->Local Area Connection- Quote:
>>Properties and disabled IPv6, and rebooted the machine, and after
> that, www.pagliacci.com and www.facebook.com worked.
>
> So I did fix the problem, but it seems hard to believe that on
> millions of PCs running Windows Vista under the default settings,
> www.facebook.com would not work. If you're running Vista:
> - are you able to access www.facebook.com? (Note that if your
> Internet connection goes through a proxy server, www.facebook.com may
> still resolve even if Vista IPv6 is enabled, because if you go through
> a proxy then hostname resolution is done on the proxy and not on your
> PC.)
> - if you ARE able to access www.facebook.com, then if you go to
> Control Panel->Network and Sharing Center->Manage network connections- Quote:
>>Local Area Connection->Properties, is IPv6 enabled?
> - if the answer to BOTH questions above is yes, then, any networking
> gurus on the list have any idea how www.facebook.com could be
> resolving on a Vista machine that has IPv6 enabled, if Facebook's IPv6
> record is broken?
> - if I'm giving up some important functionality by disabling IPv6, is
> there any way I could keep it enabled and still be able to access
> sites like www.facebook.com whose IPv6 records are broken?